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A Good Day for Vices: Coffee Is Healthy and Hot Dogs Aren’t As Bad As You Thought

Nitrates in hot dogs have had a menacing reputation since the ’70s, and doctors are constantly telling us to drink coffee in moderation. But I have excellent news to report today: hot dogs don’t seem to cause cancer and coffee can actually protect you from it. Let’s start with hot dogs, which are near and…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Oct 24

SNL Rips Zuckerberg, HuffPo, and Netflix Real Good

Hulu just dropped a nice little (unaired) gem from SNL, parodying the recent Charlie Rose roundtable tribute to Steve Jobs. But rather than tastelessly poking fun at Jobs, the “guests” are the ones ripped—and for good reason! OK, maybe Andy Samberg’s Zuckeberg schtick is a little worn at this point—especially after Zuckerberg recently paid him…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 24

Why Economic Inequality is Killing Us

Even in decidedly “wealthy” countries, human health is not always guaranteed. In fact, studies show that the best indicator of a country’s health is not its overall wealth, but how that wealth is distributed. Time Magazine’s Maia Szalavitz reports: Imagine there was one changeable factor that affected virtually every measure of a country’s health- including…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 24

Cardo Scala Rider Lightning Review: Check Your Head

Riding a motorcycle is a very solitary experience—that’s half the appeal. So who knew how much I would like being able to chat to other riders or even use my iPhone? Like For all the noise that comes on the open road, the G4’s microphone was good at picking up my voice from within my…

Tech News Joel Johnson Oct 24

Big Mother Is Watching: Statue of Liberty Gets Panoramic Webcams

Soon you’ll be able to see the world from Lady Liberty’s vantage without ever visiting New York. The Statue of Liberty is getting a sweet 125th birthday gift: five webcams that will broadcast sweeping panoramas 24 hours a day. The webcams will be switched on Friday during a ceremony commemorating the 125th anniversary of the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 24

This Year’s Sluttiest and Weirdest Store-Bought Halloween Costumes

Halloween is coming up this weekend, and you still don’t have a costume. Luckily, the store-bought costume industry is here for you! This year’s weirdest, wrongest and sexiest ready-made Halloween costumes include Sucker Punch, various superheroes… and an inflatable Star Wars costume that you just have to see for yourself. Plus a large number of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 24

Six Tools to Carry Out a Successfully Spooky Ghost Hunt

Halloween is just about here, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait a week to go ghost hunting. Those things scare the shit out of people year round. That’s why we’ve picked six essential tools to help you prove they exist. EMF Meter The common belief amongst ghost hunting experts is that ghosts emit…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 24

Zombie in a Penguin Suit adds even more indignity to the existence of a shambling corpse

If and when the dead rise, some of us will inevitably be wearing some pretty silly outfits. In this haunting short film by Chris Russell, a costumed aquarium coupon hawker begins his journey around a crumbling world. It will definitely make you sympathize with the ambulating vitality-deprived. Hat tip to Bruno.

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 24

Lefties far more likely to have sleep disorders

Well, isn’t that sinister? According to a new scientific study, left-handed individuals are more likely to have sleep disorders than right-handed ones. Specifically, they’re more likely to suffer from periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD), whereby the unconsciously and unknowingly kick their limbs during sleep — leading to feeling tired all day. A survey of 100…

io9 Tim Barribeau Oct 24

Surprise: $150 Million F-22 Fighters Are Shut Down Again

Last month, the Pentagon gave the OK to the nation’s fleet of extremely expensive F-22 jets, despite failing to fix the plane’s oxygen deprivation problems. They decided to just see how things went. They didn’t go well: it’s broken again. https://gizmodo.com/the-f-22-is-back-in-the-sky-and-still-kinda-broken-5841894 This would be comical if it weren’t so infuriating. Langley Air Force Base’s entire…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 24

How Much the iPhone Camera Has Improved

When the first iPhone came out, the camera was an afterthought, only tossed in to feature match its competitors. Fast forward four years and it’s an entirely different story, Apple has made it a point of emphasis and the camera in the iPhone 4S sh-sh-sh-shines. But how much has it really improved? Lisa Bettany took…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 24

George Foreman Stainless Steel Grill Is Your Lean, Mean Deal of the Day

Nowadays kitchen products are all endorsed by cooking celebrities — ones who can actually cook. You don’t need to know how to cook to use a George Foreman Grill. That’s the point. Latchkey kids, stoned college freshman, young professionals, all flavors of bachelors, and the just plain lazy. We all owe George Foreman a great…

Tech News Natt Garun Oct 24

Gaze upon the cosmic mystery of the Waterfall Nebula

Just like regular clouds here on Earth, it’s easy to see shapes in the interstellar clouds of dust and gas that make up nebulae. But this waterfall-shaped nebula is particularly spectacular… and nobody quite knows why it looks like that. Located in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, nebula HH-222 is considered one of the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 24

NASA interrogates 73-year-old grandmother for selling moon rocks

A Southern California woman who attempted to sell “a speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice” to NASA officials found herself on the receiving end of an elaborate sting operation earlier this year. Life, it’s sometimes like a Robert Heinlein story. To raise money for her family, 73-year-old Joann Davis contacted NASA…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 24

Once Upon a Time and Paranormal Activity get huge weekend audiences

It was a record weekend for supernatural entertainment! Paranormal Activity 3 made off like a bandit in the box office and Once Upon A Time slayed the TV ratings. According to TV Line ABC’s Once Upon a Time hit 12.8 million viewers). That’s an 86% improvement compared to what usually airs in ABC’s Sunday night…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 24

Intense Firefighter Footage Puts You Inside a Burning Building

There are things you instinctually don’t do. Rushing into a burning building is one. Fortunately for the citizens of Detroit, firefighters have tossed those instincts aside and with the help of Contour HD helmet cams have created an incredible video that shows what it’s like to battle a blaze. The video is part of a…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Oct 24

Generic Women’s Costumes

Pretty Vampiress. I mostly love this one for the look on her face. Like, “I thought I was going to be doing fashion modeling today. What am I doing here?” “Steampunk Vampiress.” Totally wear this to the next SteamCon — they will die. Sexy Steampunk. Yay! “Lust in Space.” “Divine Miss Red” Sexy Warrior “Ophelia…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 24

Men’s Costumes

“Inflatable Tauntaun” costume Green Lantern Kilowog Deluxe (high-price!) costume Green Lantern Sinestro Deluxe costume Green Lantern Tomar-Re Deluxe costume Red Skull Plus Size costume Captain America costume Thor! Thor deluxe (non-cheap) costume Loki Tron Legacy! Red Mist from Kick-Ass Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead Rick Grimes teenage costume The Walking Dead zombie The Walking…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 24

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Dreams

If we’re to believe some of the latest scientific research on sleep (or even just viral YouTube videos), the effects of dreams have likely bewildered Earth’s creatures for hundreds of millions of years. But humankind, in particular, has fostered a unique and lasting fascination with dreaming. Yet for all our interest, there remains much about…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 24

Watch a CNN Broadcast About Steve Jobs Get Hijacked By a Dancing with the Stars Lunatic

When you have a chance to hijack a live CNN broadcast about the Steve Jobs biography, what would you say? What would you do? Would you pimp your favorite Dancing with the Stars contestant? Would you scream his name so he could get more votes? That’s exactly what this freaking idiot did. What an awesome…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 24

A Good Day for Vices: Coffee Is Healthy and Hot Dogs Aren’t As Bad As You Thought

SNL Rips Zuckerberg, HuffPo, and Netflix Real Good

Why Economic Inequality is Killing Us

Cardo Scala Rider Lightning Review: Check Your Head

Big Mother Is Watching: Statue of Liberty Gets Panoramic Webcams

This Year’s Sluttiest and Weirdest Store-Bought Halloween Costumes

Six Tools to Carry Out a Successfully Spooky Ghost Hunt

Zombie in a Penguin Suit adds even more indignity to the existence of a shambling corpse

Lefties far more likely to have sleep disorders

Surprise: $150 Million F-22 Fighters Are Shut Down Again

How Much the iPhone Camera Has Improved

George Foreman Stainless Steel Grill Is Your Lean, Mean Deal of the Day

Gaze upon the cosmic mystery of the Waterfall Nebula

NASA interrogates 73-year-old grandmother for selling moon rocks

Once Upon a Time and Paranormal Activity get huge weekend audiences

Intense Firefighter Footage Puts You Inside a Burning Building

Generic Women’s Costumes

Men’s Costumes

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Dreams

Watch a CNN Broadcast About Steve Jobs Get Hijacked By a Dancing with the Stars Lunatic

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